Larry Campagna > Chamberlain Hrdlicka > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Chamberlain Hrdlicka Offices
1200 Smith Street
Suite 1400
Houston, Texas 77002
TEXAS
United States
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Larry Campagna
Work Department
- Tax Controversy & Litigation
- Tax
- Criminal Tax Defense
- Federal White Collar Criminal Defense
- State and Local Tax Controversy & Planning
- Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Audits and Investigations
Position
Managing Shareholder
Career
Larry Campagna has established a reputation as an authoritative litigator in matters of business litigation and white collar criminal defense, as well as federal, state and local tax controversies. Over more than 40 years, he has resolved thousands of civil and criminal litigation matters, many of which involved sophisticated and complex legal issues that established precedent in courts at the federal, state and local levels.
Highlights of Mr. Campagna’s career include: representing the first taxpayer to be awarded attorneys’ fees by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; serving as lead counsel in one of the largest project cases in the history of the United States Tax Court; and successfully defending one of the world’s largest accounting firms in a tax malpractice case.
Mr. Campagna teaches a course in the law of Tax Crimes and Money Laundering as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. He has served the American Bar Association Section of Taxation as Chair of the Employment Taxes Committee; as Chair of the Subcommittee on IRS Investigations and Procedures of the Committee on Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties; and as Chair of a Task Force on Offshore Credit Card Cases of the Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee.
Education
University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1974
University of Texas at Austin, J.D., 1977
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: contentious
(Hall of Fame)Chamberlain Hrdlicka‘s highly experienced team has expertise in audits and appeals and is a leading name in tax litigation. The group is regularly active in both federal and SALT matters in addition to handling international mandates involving South America and Europe. Leading the team is the Houston-based Juan F. Vasquez, Jr., who has experience acting on behalf of both high net worth individuals and prominent multinationals in an array of federal and state and local tax matters. Key team members include David Aughtry
in Atlanta, who handles federal criminal and civil tax disputes, Jaime Vasquez of San Antonio, whose practice covers an array of transactional and tax controversy matters, and Larry Campagna, who is based in Houston and is well known in the market. Philadelphia lawyer Jennifer Karpchuk co-heads the firm’s national SALT practice. Recent additions to the team include Erin Hines, who joined from the Tax Division of The Department of Justice in late 2022, and Tom Cullinan, who previously worked within the IRS before moving to the firm in April 2023. Both Hines and Cullinan are based in Atlanta.